Dear Mexican: Why do cholos like the song “I’m Your Puppet,” by James & Bobby Purify? Is it this song, or is it all oldies they like? Aspiring Puppeteer Dear Gabacho: It ain’t just cholos who are down with oldies. Mexican-Americans of all social classes have kept that music genre…
Fresh off his win for Best TV Anchor in the Best of Denver 2015, Kyle Clark was in the national eye yesterday when a short 9News segment started going viral. Clark was standing with Kathy Sabine and Kim Christiansen in a typical “backyard segment,” making jokes about kale and hipsters…
Denver blogs are no joke. Are fans right to be suspicious of The Grateful Dead’s reunion lineup? Adam Perry tackles that question in our music section. Purple Row lines up ten reasons fans should be excited about the Colorado Rockies’ 2015 season. The Colorado Independent takes a look at how…
Colorado saw a slight increase in medical marijuana patients from January to February, but thousands of patients have still dropped off the registry — and the number who sign up with private caregivers continues to shrink. Medical marijuana patient numbers rose from 113,453 patients in January to 114,290 in February…
On March 29, the Denver Zoo lost one of its five lions when Baby, a seventeen-year-old female who mothered three cubs from two litters, was euthanized. “Baby had been battling several, chronic age-related health issues over the last few years,” zoo veterinarian Betsy Stringer said in a statement. “When she began…
Brad Evans, founder of the Denver Cruisers, decided not to run for mayor of Denver — a quixotic mission he’d explored last fall — but he’s definitely got a campaign under way. Last week he founded Denver Fugly, a Facebook page dedicated to documenting some of the aesthetic disasters in…
In early March, with no strong competitors emerging, Michael Hancock looked like a shoo-in for re-election as Denver’s mayor on May 5. No strong competitors also means few, if any debates during this short campaign season — so writer Alan Prendergast asked to sit down with Hancock to ask some…
Strain Gang is our new weekly critique of a cannabis strain at a recreational store. For MMJ reviews, read Mile Highs and Lows at westword.com/news. Pre-rolled joints have quickly become the hot dogs of Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry. They’re cheap to make, easy to consume and extremely convenient — but…
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz stands in the middle of Wok Eat, an Asian fast-food restaurant in Boulder. She’s remembering a time, years ago, when the tidy dining room was a retail store bustling with family and bursting with books. Not to mention a very different mixture of smells. “There were these…
More than sixty years ago, when the federal government decided to build a nuclear weapons plant, it picked an eleven-acre spot on the Front Range northwest of Denver, a landscape studded with farms and ranches — and just sixteen miles upwind of a major city. When it opened in 1952,…
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Denver’s Road Home, the city’s ten-year plan to end homelessness. But homelessness continues, and now Denver’s Road Home and Mayor Michael Hancock’s office have launched a series of community meetings around the city to discuss DRH’s achievements and the current homeless situation, and…
Dear Stoner: I was at my neighborhood stoner store recently and noticed an ingredient I was not familiar with: bat guano. What is that? L.L. Pot Seed Dear L.L.: The answer is poop. Bat poop, specifically. While bats may be disease-carrying flying rats with poor eyesight, their excrement is like…
Our post about a new effort to push for more public restrooms in central Denver — and a human-waste map that shows the scope of the problem — got a lot of people talking. Some respondents took a serious approach to what they see as a need for more facilities…
Denver blog posts are fine with expanding beyond three meals a day. At our Food & Restaurants blog, Lauren Monitz counts the ten hippest Easter brunches in Denver and nearby areas. Colorado Peak Politics thinks the far left is eating its own, with Jared Polis becoming the latest victim. Big…
The Best of Denver 2015, which hit the streets last week, has already disappeared from more than 2,000 racks and newsstands around town. But it lives on at Westword.com, where you’ll find everything from our Best Guess for When the Broncos Return to the Super Bowl (we, like the readers,…
Corrections deputy Isaac Nail has been a member of the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office for nearly twenty years, having started with the organization in November 1995. But a recent release from the sheriff’s office isn’t about his many years of service. Instead, it deals with a hit-and-run accident for which…
Last week, we told you that State Representative Gordon Klingenschmitt, a notable abortion foe (and virulent homophobe), had politicized the attack on Michelle Wilkins, whose baby was cut from her womb, during one of his regular YouTube programs. Afterward, the outrage against Klingenschmitt escalated, and his attempts to dial it…
Greenpeace is known for going after whalers, toxic-waste dumpers and other entities that it sees as hindering its goal to “ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity.” But its latest target isn’t a greedy polluter or ecology-despoiler. It’s the City of Fort Collins. The organization…
Which Denver neighborhoods have the most hipsters? The folks at FindTheBest.com tried to discover the answer based on the following criteria: number of cafes, yoga studios, people with bachelor’s degrees, and residents between the ages of twenty and 34. What follows is a photo-illustrated list of the twelve Denver neighborhoods with the…
No denying it: This photo of Sydney Spies is too sexy for a high school yearbook — the type of publication whose rejection of a less revealing shot on the grounds that it was too sexy catapulted her to brief national fame just over three years ago. Now, Sydney and…
On Friday, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office shared its official response to a complaint filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by Nebraska and Oklahoma over Colorado’s marijuana laws. But while the AG’s office asks the Supremes to reject the arguments of these states, a Coffman statement released in conjunction with…
Word that Dynel Lane wouldn’t be charged with murder after the death of a baby she allegedly cut from Michelle Wilkins’s womb unleashed a torrent of commentary. Most readers ranged from feeling unhappy with the decision to very, very unhappy with the decision. The following reader’s response is emblematic of many others…
